Appreciate the replies - I know a little more than average about networking but I'm NOT a CCNA for sure. I changed my network to class A primarily to get an entirely different range of IP addresses when I moved so as to see easily anything left from my old network which was the more typical 192.168... setup. the 255.255.255.0 was how it defaulted and from what I understand (and is mentioned above) there is no downside to doing this other than limiting it on available IP and 250+ is more than I need at this point.
Hate to get too far off topic, but if I change it in my router to the correct 255.0.0.0 as you note, is there anything that will break??? (the enemy of good is better).
I'm not aware that you can set a static IP for the SL adapter - you can set within your router a reserved IP for the MAC address, but I don't think the adapter has an interface in which you can set a static IP. Am I missing something?
Hate to get too far off topic, but if I change it in my router to the correct 255.0.0.0 as you note, is there anything that will break??? (the enemy of good is better).
I'm not aware that you can set a static IP for the SL adapter - you can set within your router a reserved IP for the MAC address, but I don't think the adapter has an interface in which you can set a static IP. Am I missing something?